Congers
New York (NY), 10920
Congers is a hamlet (and a census-designated place) in Rockland County, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 8,303. Congers is in the Town of Clarkstown. Congers has two elementary schools, Congers Elementary and Lakewood Elementary. Students from these schools will attend Felix Festa Middle School and then Clarkstown North High School. Congers is also the home of the Rockland Country Day School, which accepts students in grades K-12 and was founded in 1959.
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Landmarks & Places of Interest Congers, NY:
- Dr. Davies Farm - The farmhouse, part of a 450-acre (1.8 km�) farm that ran from Rockland Lake to the Hudson River was built in 1836 and is of the early frontier federalist style. In 1891 Arthur B. Davies and Dr. Lucy Meriwether married and purchased what is now the Davies home farm for $6500.00. Lucy Meriweather Davies, M.D., a relative of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a general practitioner who in her time, delivered a significant part of Rockland's population: 7,000 babies. She also farmed the land which her descendants operate today. In 2007 the present Davies owners gifted with no tax benefits 6-8 acres of its property to Rockland Center for the Arts - (RoCA) located in West Nyack, New York.
- Rockland Lake Museum - Rockland Lake State Park - Open all year, but call the office in advance to make sure someone can unlock the room in which the exhibit is contained. Free. Exhibits releating to the local ice industry and community life in Rockland Lake Village, including ice harvesting tools.
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